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    French Monuments ; as the stones were scattered in every direction , it was impossible to form any idea of their united effect . We observed , however , three very rude figures carved in stone which it seems from an

    inscription , of which the following is the substance , were intended to represent the Trinity 1 - " Peter Abelard , founder of this abbey , lived in the 12 th century : he was distinguished by the profundity of his learning and the rarity of his worth ; but having published a

    work on the Trinity , which was condemned by the Council of Soissons , in 1120 , he retracted , and , to shew that his opinions w-ere orthodox , he made out of a single stone these three figures , which represent the three divine persons of the Holv Trinitv . " The burial

    ground is kept in excellent order , to preserve which several gens d ' armes are constantly on duty : some of our party who had inadvertently trespassed , by leaving the path and crossing the grass , were rather roughly

    accosted by the soldiers on guard , who were scarcely pacified by information that they were foreigners and consequently unacquainted with the rules of the place . A feeling of respect for the remains of the dead , and a wish to

    preserve them from insult , seem natural to Ihe human heart ; we find traces of it in the remotest ages of antiquity ; whatever variety of customs as to the disposal of the dead may have prevailed in different nations , or even in the same nation at different

    periods of its civilization , they all had one uniform object in view , that of protecting their remains from profanation and insult . And does not the same feeling beat responsive in our breasts ? Who of us but must have felt shocked ( when passing through

    the common receptacles of mortality , particularly in the neighbourhood of our metropolis , ) to see the want of decency and respect with which the remains of former generations are treated , at seeing- their bones handled and thrown about with the utmost

    carelessness and indifference , exposed to the idle gaze of every passenger ? Do they not seem to say to us with the unburied skeleton of Archytas—Nor thou , my friend , refuse with impiou hand A little portion of the wandering sandy To these my poor remains — . "

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    In this respect we might with advantage take a lesson from our continental neighbours .

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    Sir , Exeter , Oct . 13 , 1817 . FOR the satisfaction of your correspondent Historicus , in your last Number , [ p . 5 % 5 , ~ ] I have looked into Socrates for the fact he mentions , and have readily found the passage to which Sir E . Coke alluded , of which I send you a free translation . Socrat .

    Hist . Eccl . L . i . cap . 38 : — " The Em > peror wishing to put Arius to the test sent for him to the palace , and asked , him whether he submitted to the Decrees of the Council of Nice : he

    readily , without any delay , but with a fraudulent intention , signed in the Emperor ' s presence what it had decided respecting the faith . Constantine , surprised , required an oath in addition , and he carried his deceit so

    far as to satisfy him even in this . The fraud which he practised in subscribing was , as I have heard , as follows : —They say , that Arius having written his own opinions upon a parchment which he had with him , carried it under his arm and swore that he

    really believed according to what he had written . This last fact I have related only from hearsay , but that he added an oath to his subscription , I have asserted on the authority of the Emperor ' s letters /'

    In the last sentence of this passage Historicus may perhaps find a reason for the story having been neglected by Mosheim and Priestley ; but he should have been very sure that it was a fabrication before he ventured to charge Sir E . Coke with so wanton and

    useless , a falsehood as inventing it and ascribing it to Socrates . W . H .

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    Lady Nithsdale ' s Letter . —Arius s alleged Fraud . 66 <>

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    Sir , Nov . 2 , 1817 . riMHE letter which I lately trans-JL mitted to you , [ p . 460 , ] giving an accouut of Lord Nithsdale ' escape , was written by Lady Nithsdale to her sister , an abbess , at Bruges . The original is in the hands of Mr . Maxwell , of Yorkshire , who is descended from Lord Nithsdale . From an intimate friend of Mr . Maxwell I obtained the copy which 1 transmitted to you . T . C . HOLLAND .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/29/